judicial independence ile ilgili hikayeler

• EU lawmakers voted to condemn damage to democracy in Hungary under PM Viktor Orban. The parliamentarians raised concerns about Hungary’s constitutional and electoral systems, judicial independence, possible corruption, public procurement irregularities, LGBTQ+ rights, as well as media, academic and religious freedoms. The quote: The French Greens parliamentarian who chaperoned the resolution through the assembly, Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield, said, “Hungary is no lon...Devamını Oku

16 Eyl 2022

• EU’s threat to cut Poland and Hungary’s budget got a boost after the Advocate General to EU Court of Justice backed the legality of the bloc assigning itself new powers to withhold budget distribution from nations backsliding on democratic standards in a non-binding opinion. Hungary and Poland reacted to this by saying that the conditionality mechanism is “basically blackmailing” and breaks the EU law as it can lead into arbitrary decisions by the bloc to withhold fund...Devamını Oku

03 Ara 2021

• Brussels sent letters to the Polish and Hungarian ambassadors to the EU on Friday, setting out a detailed series of questions on possible breaches to EU rule of law. Warsaw and Budapest have two months to respond or risk losing EU funding as Brussels steps up pressure over judicial independence. Behind the scenes: The letters mark an informal step towards a decision by the European Commission over whether to trigger a new rule of law conditionality mechanism that ...Devamını Oku

22 Kas 2021